This RV will charge your electric truck after towing

Electric trucks look to have deed a pothole recently, ignored by motortruck owners who opportunity they’re worried astir losing excessively overmuch ranging from towing. But what if the point your towing could besides pump electrons backmost into your truck’s artillery erstwhile all’s said and done? That what California-company Evotrex is proposing pinch its caller RV, the Evotrex-PG5.

The concealed to the Evotrex-PG5 is its “unified power system” that combines a monolithic 43kWh lithium-phosphate battery, 1.5kW of solar, and an ultra-efficient gas-powered onboard generator called Horizon, which acts arsenic a scope extender of sorts. Evotrex says that these power sources moving together tin present much than 270kWh of usable power connected a azygous cycle, giving off-grid seekers much state to widen their journeys beyond the normal limits. The institution is billing it arsenic the world’s first power-generating RV.

Power is topped up automatically done solar, regenerative charging while towing, and Horizon’s substance businesslike generator. The PG5 besides supports vehicle-to-load (V2L) powerfulness export, making it easy to tally tools, cooking gear, aliases campsite instrumentality consecutive from the trailer’s onboard powerfulness system.

And erstwhile you’re done towing, you tin simply plug your electrical motortruck into the PG5 for added range. The RV’s artillery allows for AC charging of 6.6kW, aliases DC charging speeds of 60kW, some disconnected the Tesla-NACS charging standard. And successful summation to serving arsenic a location distant from home, the PG5 tin besides powerfulness your existent location successful the arena of a blackout.

It’s a batch for immoderate 1 RV proprietor to manage, truthful Evotrex besides supplies thing called the Power Calculator, to thief negociate your powerfulness needs based connected biology factors and usage preferences. Essentially, it will show you really agelong you tin enactment disconnected grid and hooked up to the PG5’s outer sources.

And there’s plentifulness of animal comforts too, including a queen sized bed, convertible dinette that seats two, ratio appliances, a barren bath that includes a afloat ablution and toiler, a double-burner induction cooktop, convection microwave, scope hood and refrigerator and a motorized patio deck.

Naturally, nary of this comes cheap, pinch the PG5 starting astatine $119,900. That places it among immoderate of the astir costly motorhomes and camper vans connected the market, but surely makes a lawsuit for itself pinch each its other powerfulness offerings. The afloat loaded Atlas trim will costs moreover more, starting astatine $159,990. But it’s besides not arsenic dense arsenic I would person expected, pinch a gross conveyance weight of 9,500 lbs (8,350 lbns dry). Evotrex expects to commencement accumulation successful precocious 2026, pinch the first customer deliveries planned for early 2027.